Feature Index

Behind the beautiful interface, Squarespace is an incredibly rich publishing platform. Here, you can find an exhaustive list of everything the Squarespace platform can do.

Designs

Modern Templates – Each Squarespace template design has been crafted by our world-class design team. Our template designs are created with modern browsers and mobile devices in mind, and employ the latest HTML, CSS and Javascript techniques.

Template Switching – Squarespace allows you to install multiple templates onto a single website and work on multiple designs at once.

Designed for Any Purpose – Every Squarespace template design supports all major content types, including Pages, Galleries, Blogs, Commerce, Calendars, and more.

Style Editor – With hundreds of customizable settings, including fonts, colors, and page configurations, every Squarespace website can be made to look unique with just a few clicks.

Built-in Mobile Websites – Every design automatically includes a unique mobile experience that matches the overall style of your website, so your content will look great on every device, every time. If desired, you can disable the mobile view from Website Manager.

Free Typekit Fonts – Squarespace has partnered with Typekit to provide every customer with a free selection of the highest quality fonts available on the web. Use Typekit fonts on your site without embedding font kits or paying additional fees.

Free Google Fonts – Squarespace includes a curated set of fonts from Google’s font library that can be used without having to insert embed codes.

Custom CSS – Custom CSS can be applied to any template design through our built-in custom CSS editor, which also provides image and font file storage for CSS assets.

Example Content Restore – Easily restore example content that came with your original template at any time.

Image Manager

Responsive Image Loader – Squarespace generates several scaled versions of each original image file uploaded. Our image loader detects and selects the appropriate image size to load for every device and screen - including Apple devices with Retina Displays.

Progressive Image Loading – Squarespace ensures images on the top of a page load first, making your website faster and more responsive to visitors.

CDN Included – All images on Squarespace are hosted with a global content delivery network (CDN) that reduce load times by utilizing hundreds of geographically distributed servers.

Getty Images Integration – Squarespace customers can now access over 40 million images from Getty Images’ collection of high-quality creative and editorial photos, spanning breaking news and major events. Images cost just each plus applicable taxes for web use.

Image Focal Point Control – Squarespace allows you to define the focal point of every image, ensuring the perfect crop for thumbnails or resized images.

Adobe Image Editor – All images hosted on Squarespace can be edited directly within your browser using the Adobe Image Editor. Crop, resize, rotate, adjust brightness and contrast, and much more.

Lightbox Presentation – Lightbox functionality is integrated into Squarespace Image Blocks and galleries, allowing for beautiful full-browser-sized imagery. Lightbox presentation of your images can be enabled with just one click.

Image SEO – You have full control over image file names across the system.

Image Metadata Importing – Squarespace can auto-fill the Title, Description, and Tags for your images using the metadata you’ve already assigned to it in your photo management software.

Video in Galleries – All gallery collections allow for mixed media presentations, including video and audio content in addition to images in the same gallery.

Audio Collections

Audio Collections – Upload music directly to Squarespace and easily share your albums with a beautiful, integrated player and album art display. Squarespace recognizes the metadata of your audio files, so information like song title and artist name will be populated automatically.

Dropbox File Synchronization – Drop collections of images in your Dropbox account and synchronize these with Squarespace in a single click.

Easy Importing – Pull in content from Twitter, Foursquare, Instagram, 500px, or Flickr directly into any page, sidebar, or footer of your site.

Content Downloading – Content from connected services is always downloaded into Squarespace, meaning that your website is served from a single location, improving load times and allowing image content to take advantage of our built in gallery components.

Social Links – Easily display social network profile links, letting your visitors follow you on every major network. A variety of presentation styles help keep your site design consistent.

Simultaneous Posting – Squarespace can authenticate with your social profiles, letting you auto-post your content to Twitter, Facebook (personal or brand page), or Tumblr. All post entries and images are optimized and tagged properly, so descriptions and titles will be correctly referenced.

Photo Downloading / Resizing – Squarespace downloads images from any image-based social source (Flickr, 500px, etc.), resizes them, and makes them available for use in any Squarespace gallery style.

OpenTable Blocks – Add an OpenTable block to any page, so visitors can make a reservation for your restaurant directly from your website.

Acuity Scheduling – Add online booking and scheduling without using complicated embed codes. The Acuity Block is a great addition to any appointment or class-based business website. Our integration includes a free Acuity Entrepreneur plan.

Zola for Wedding Websites – Showcase items and dream experiences from a wedding registry, whether they’re home goods, trips, or cash for a down payment. Offer guests a one stop shop for celebrating your big day.

Markdown Mode – Easily embed Markdown on your site with a Markdown Block.

Automatic Image Scaling – Image Blocks automatically scale or fit images to ensure they always look right, irrespective of their placement within your content. Double-click on an image to see an overlay of the full image itself, then drag that to ensure the best crop for your images.

Automatic Text Wrapping – To wrap text around an image, simply drag your Image Block over a Text Block. When the Insert Point turns into a box, drop the Image Block.

Audio Blocks – With Audio Blocks that support podcasting, you can embed audio on your site, and tag the audio for iTunes if the Audio Block is placed into a blog.

Archive Blocks – With Archive Blocks, you can group and display up to 1,000 content items (top-level group name, title and date only) by year, month, author, category or tag to create a rich index page.

Unified Site Logins – Using a single login, contribute and manage multiple Squarespace sites at once.

Cover Pages

Single Page Solutions – The Cover Page builder, complete with 10 new templates of its own, can be added to any existing Squarespace site and is perfect for creating quick landing pages to communicate a personal identity or promote a new product.

Template Switching – Squarespace allows you to switch your cover page templates as you see fit.

Clear Call-to-Action – Every Squarespace Cover Page can link to another page within your Squarespace website, collect more information, or add visitors to a mailing list.

Email Campaigns

Content Integrations – Import content from your website to draft emails in minutes, saving time and avoiding mistakes. Your products, blog posts, social icons, logo, and mailing lists are only one click away.

Powerful Editing Tools – Add an image to grab attention, link to relevant content, or use a button to drive clicks. Try different color and style combinations to suit the content of your email.

Customizable Layouts – With more than 30 starter layouts to choose from, you can announce a product, send an invitation, or share updates with your subscribers. Organize and format content any way you want with customizable drag-and-drop sections.

Mobile Editing – Manage all of your email marketing in one centralized dashboard on any device. Create a campaign, save drafts, reuse layouts, review performance metrics, and more from your desktop, phone, or tablet.

Mobile Optimized Designs – Reach your audience no matter where they are. All layouts are made with Squarespace’s responsive designs, so your emails will look great whether they’re viewed on mobile or desktop.

Mailing Lists – Get the right message to the right people. Collect email addresses through your website and send subscribers the information they care about most with unique mailing lists.

Sender Profiles – Make your email stand out with a custom “From” field to ensure that each email’s message aligns with who it’s from. Domains purchased from Squarespace are already verified, so you can immediately start sending emails from the domain you own.

Commerce

Unlimited Products – There is no limit to the number of products you can sell through Squarespace.

Rich Product Descriptions – Embed text, images, videos, audio, maps, and much more in your product descriptions. As with all Squarespace pages, all Content Block types are available for use on your product page.

Templates Optimized for Commerce – Set up your store with templates designed to help you sell, with Image Zoom on product images and Quick View in product lists to give shoppers the best browsing experience.

Product Quick View – Allow customers to see product details from the list view and navigate to other products in the collection. Feature available in Thorne, Hyde, Brine, and Marta templates.

Product Image Zoom – Set a zoom factor and select whether zoom occurs on click or hover. Feature available in Thorne, Hyde, Brine, and Marta templates.

Product Embed – Showcase products anywhere on your site where LayoutEngine is supported (blog posts, pages, sidebars, and more). Simply use a Product Block to pull items from your product collection into the right context.

Subscriptions – Easily sell subscriptions to products and services on a weekly or monthly basis to generate recurring revenue and build customer loyalty.

Custom Forms for Products – Collect information from customers for each product they add to their cart. Whether it’s initials for a monogrammed product or registration info for an event, Form Blocks help you create forms for the most complex of scenarios.

Donations – Accept donations of pre-set or unbounded amounts via the Donations Block. Donations are managed on a separate page from regular orders and purchases in your site manager.

Affordable Pricing – There are no Squarespace transaction fees for Squarespace Commerce plans (Basic and Advanced). Customers selling through Squarespace’s Website product will be charged a transaction fee at a competitive rate. See our pricing page for more details. Visit Stripe and PayPal for payment processing rates for your country.

Customizable Checkout – Customize the checkout experience to reflect your brand by choosing your own color scheme and adding your logo. Set up custom checkout forms for gift messages, special delivery instructions, or comments to optimize the checkout experience for your business.

Mobile-Optimized Checkout – Squarespace’s single page checkout is optimized to look great on all devices, making it easy for your customers to buy wherever they are. Our checkout is integrated with Google Place Autocomplete to make entering addresses super fast for your customers.

Express Checkout Mode – Allow your customers to bypass the shopping cart and jump straight to checkout, a great way for single-product stores to streamline checkout.

Checkout on Your Domain – Direct customers to a secure checkout on your domain for a consistent shopping experience and stronger sense of security.

Customer Accounts – Allow your customers to create accounts and sign in for a faster checkout. With this feature, you can increase sales from repeat buyers and build ongoing relationships with your customers.

Gift Cards – Gift cards are a special product that recipients can use as payment for orders from your online store. Every purchased gift card has a unique code. When a customer purchases a gift card, they can email the code to their recipient or themselves.

Discounts – Create automatic discounts that apply to entire orders, orders over a set amount, specific products, or offer free shipping. Reduce the risk of overuse by limiting discounts to one use per customer, or setting the total number of uses.

Social Integrations – Easily share store news and product updates to Twitter, Facebook, or any other social account supported by the platform. Each product listing includes metadata for Pinterest Rich Pins and Twitter Product Cards.

Customers – Understand your customer base with insights such as total spend, average order value, and more about each customer. Easily sort your customers to identify your best customers, ones that haven’t purchased in a while, and more.

Real-Time Carrier Calculated Shipping Rates with USPS, UPS, FedEx – Get real-time shipping estimates for U.S. customers during checkout to avoid under or overcharging for shipping.

Custom Email Styles – Customize transactional order emails sent to customers, including the order confirmation, order fulfilled, order refunded, and abandoned checkout emails.

Flexible Shipping Options – Set up shipping options for your store, from pickup, flat-rate, weight-based, to real-time rates. Apply country restrictions as needed.

3D Packing Algorithms – Visualize how Squarespace estimates the size and cost of each package with a 3D rendering of orders inside their boxes. This feature is available when using any real-time carrier rates.

ShipStation Integration – Sync your Squarespace orders with ShipStation and print shipping labels in batch for all major carriers. ShipStation also offers integrations with fulfillment services like Shipwire and Fulfillment By Amazon.

Tax Rates – Manage your tax rates for countries and regions where you are required to charge tax. With support for VAT, HST, GST, we help you comply with local tax requirements, allow you to set prices inclusive or exclusive of tax, and provide customizable invoices to suit your needs.

Commerce Analytics – Understand how your business is doing by tracking the revenue, orders, units sold, and much more. Learn which traffic sources and products are generating the most sales. Delve into your purchase funnel to learn how you can optimize conversion.

Page Titles – You have full control over the ordering of your page titles, including the ability to create different title schemes for your homepage, item pages, and collection pages.

Automatic Google Sitemaps – Squarespace automatically generates and links a proper sitemap.xml, which enumerates every single URL on your site with proper priority for perfect indexing even if you use a Javascript-heavy template.

Anti-Spam – Squarespace is a paid service that aggressively fights spam. If you are using a free service that is a target for spammers, you potentially run the risk of being falsely grouped with other spam sites.

Blog App

Site Management – Squarespace Blog lets you manage blog comments and entries on the go. The app is currently available for iOS and Android devices at no extra cost.

Preview and Post – Squarespace Blog allows you to format text or Markdown, tap-and-drag images within your post, and modify detailed post settings on the go.

Multiple Website Management – Manage multiple websites and view site statistics from one single app.

Analytics App

Site Analytics – Currently available for iOS and Android devices at no extra cost, Squarespace Analytics presents site traffic, sales, popular content and more.

Monitor Your KPIs – Follow the metrics that matter to you, from Page Views and unique visitors to top referrers and trend charts, so you can keep a pulse on your site even when you’re on-the-go.

Note App

Completely Free – A free app, on iOS and Android, even for users without a Squarespace account.

Analytics

Traffic Overview – See how your visits, unique visitors, and pageviews trend over time. Gain insight into the top traffic sources, products, device types, browsers and operating systems by visits.

Popular Content – Quickly identify the top performing content on your website.

Traffic Sources – Learn where your visits and sales are coming from. Analyze which channels, like Search or Social, are most effective. You can also dig into specific referral links to see which press articles and posts result in the most traffic or sales.

Purchase Funnel – A visual report that shows you how many visits result in purchases, where customers are dropping off, and how changes to your site affect conversion over time. This feature is available in the Commerce Basic and Advanced plans.

Abandoned Cart – Gain insight into how many of your carts are being abandoned and recovered, and the corresponding revenue those represent.

Site Search Queries – Find out what your visitors are searching for on your site and gain insight into what products or topics your visitors may be interested in.

RSS Statistics – Squarespace provides accurate RSS subscriber figures as well as a breakdown of where your RSS subscribers are coming from.

Activity Log – Gain insight into how your visitors are navigating through your site, how much time they’re spending on your site, and where they are coming from geographically.

Unique Visitors and Page Views – Squarespace monitors your Page Views, Visit Counts, and Visitor Counts, including raw, unique, and robot hits. Website statistics are computed every few minutes for a real-time view of your numbers. This feature is available in our Website and Cover Page product lines.

Visitor Insights – Squarespace lets you know where your visitors are coming from, and what keywords are leading visitors to your website.

Popular Content – Quickly identify the top performing content on your website. This feature is available in the Website and Commerce product lines.

RSS Statistics – Squarespace provides accurate RSS subscriber figures as well as a breakdown of where your RSS subscribers are coming from. This feature is available in the Website and Commerce product lines.

Preferred OS/Browsers – Track what operating systems and browsers your users are using to visit your website. This feature is available in our Website and Cover Page product lines.

Traffic Sources – Learn which websites, social networks, and other marketing channels are driving interest and sales. This feature is available in the Website and Commerce product lines.

Commerce Overview – A dashboard focuses on seven Commerce KPIs, including Revenue, Units Sold, Orders, Visits, Conversion Rate, Average Order volume, and Revenue Per Visit. This feature is available in the Commerce product line.

Purchase Funnel – A visual report that shows you how many visits result in purchases, where customers are dropping off, and how changes to your site affect conversion over time. This feature is available in the Commerce product line.

Abandoned Checkout – This panel tracks the success of your Abandoned Checkout emails so you know how many checkouts were recovered as a result of automated emails. This feature is available in the Commerce product line.

Device Filtering – Filter performance metrics by Mobile, Tablet, Desktop, or Other. This feature is available in the Commerce product line.

Reliable Service Architecture

We Use What We Make – Our front site, www.squarespace.com, is a Squarespace website called ’www.’ All of our websites, including our own, are served from the same powerful infrastructure as yours.

High Capacity and Availability – Every system in our infrastructure participates in serving all of our websites, so your site is powered by the same infrastructure that powers sites with millions of pages views a day.

A Remarkable History – Squarespace has been in business for more than a decade. We’ve ensured the robustness of our system through real world use, not lab testing.

Plugins Not Required – No additional caching plugins are required for your Squarespace website. Everything is built in, and you do not need to optimize anything.

Content Ownership and Our Business

Content Ownership – You own all of the content you put on the Squarespace platform. We offer one-click data portability.

Ad-Free – While you can run your own ads or make money with your site if you’d like, we do not sell or run ads against your content. Your site is yours.

Squarespace Badge – If you’d like, you can display the Squarespace Badge on your website, which displays the copy “Powered By Squarespace” when you hover your mouse over it.

Privacy Protected – Squarespace has a straightforward subscription business model and has been profitable for more than a decade. We do not sell your data.

No Surprises – There is no surprise pricing during checkout, no additional charges, no long-term contracts (with monthly plans), and no credit card required up front. Try us for free for 14 days, no questions asked.

Domains

Purchasing Domains – In addition to configuring third party domains, customers can purchase domains directly from Squarespace. Over 200 TLDs are currently available for purchase, and each domain comes with a beautiful parking page and free WHOIS privacy.

Free Domain Included – All annual Squarespace accounts include a free custom domain for the first year (offer is valid for initial domain registration only).

Seamless Domain Registration – Domains registered through us are automatically set up to work with your Squarespace website, which means you never have to touch DNS records.

DNS Control & Domain Forwarding – Easily set up popular third-party services on your domain in just a couple of clicks with our DNS & forwarding presets.

Importing and Exporting

Product Importing – Import products from BigCartel, Shopify, and Etsy, or any other platform.

Image Importing – Import images from external websites and Smugmug.

Content Exporting – Export content to Wordpress.

Complete Access – Programmatically access all site content via structured JSON at any time by appending

?format=json

to any Squarespace URL.

Support

24/7 Email Support – Squarespace offers email support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All customer care team members are employees in our offices, and typically respond to help requests in about an hour.

Community Answers – Squarespace provides a community-driven Q&A website where you can easily find answers to hundreds of questions, or pose a question of your own to be answered by other Squarespace experts. Visit answers.squarespace.com.

Live Chat Support – Squarespace offers live chat support during weekdays from 3am to 8pm EST, and email support 24/7.

Developer Platform

Full Code Control – Change everything from the opening doctype tag to the footer.

Git Built-in – All templates are exposed via Git, so you can work with a team and roll back changes easily.